"Many people in developing countries don't rely much on governments, and even after a disaster, they just go ahead and do it, " said Peter McCawley, an economist at the Australian National University and a specialist on disaster relief policy.
It is a foreign policy disaster in the making.
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Those should be made available to all the provinces and districts for active response as well as to National Disaster Management Authority for policy formulation and strategic guidance and to Federal Flood Commission for monitoring of flood infrastructure.
In a sense, the right to go bust is an insurance policy against financial disaster.
Ultimately, though, the policy was a PR disaster, says First Amendment attorney Lawrence Walter.
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But the idea that money manipulation is smart policy has repeatedly caused disaster.
The Youth Delegates will also have the opportunity to exchange ideas with Young Professionals of the UNESCO Science Sector specializing in the fields of water, biodiversity, ecology, earth sciences, science education, disaster risk reduction, and science policy.
Everyone knows fiscal and monetary policy in Japan was a disaster of timidity and conservatism.
The campaign flopped but the Senator picked up the pieces and earned respect with a best selling book advocating public policy change to avert environmental disaster.
When four past chiefs of the Shin Bet security service declared in November that the present policy was leading Israel to disaster, the whole country caught its breath.
Relying on old-fashioned trade statistics for 21st century policy decisions is a recipe for disaster.
If he is to avoid a similar disaster, he must come up with a clear policy on business-labour issues, and then show some resolve.
But the country was running a budget surplus before that, and a continuing tight fiscal policy has not only not caused a Keynesian disaster, but has accompanied a strong rebound.
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And that has been our policy that there has been a delay in the schedule because of the disaster.
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Having made a policy decision to replace nuclear power with other sources of energy in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, we believe that Japan will opt for LNG as one of the alternative sources.
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For all those in this category, the new policy will provide rapid relief: insurers will pay up as soon as the scale of the disaster has been determined (by a recognised international meteorological office), whatever view the aid agencies take.
Coordinate and provide substantive support to Member States and other key stakeholders in the form of policy advice and guidance, strategy development, capacity-building and programme design in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction and Education, through the medium of formal, non-formal and informal education and public awareness-raising.
UNESCO: Vacancy : Programme Specialist (20/6/2011) (ED 005 - (P5))
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